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Banananames, . Anil, A. Ross Eckler

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Words like LOGOLOGICAL, which alternate vowels and sonsonanats could use a succinct name. David Morice's The Dictionary of Word Play cites them only with reference to numbers, as "alternating vowel-consonant number name", a wordful description rather than a handy name. May we suggest "banananames", in the spirit of Agamemnon, Albuquerque and Miami words which are named after prime examples.

Party Smarty, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

A Poem.

Gerunding, Ron Singer

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A Poem

Typoclycemic Anaphoric Verse, Dave Drayton

Word Ways

Anaphoric verse - a term taken from the word 'Anaphora' - is poetry that involves the "repetition of a word at the beginning of successive utterances," Motte 2007 pp. 209. Inspired by the power that such technique lends to a text, each repetition potentially a reiteration, I sought to employ it with a further constraint that I believed would serve to even better illustrate the anophora's potential for stern, powerful imagery through accretion.

Hebrew Or Japanese?, Solomon W. Golomb

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1. INTRODUCTION

It is quite common that, for any two languages, there will be words that look or sound alike, but with different meanings. French words that look like English words but with different meanings in the two languages are called faux amis ("false friends"). In some cases they are from unrelated roots (e.g. French pain means "bread" and rue means "street". In other cases, words that began the same evolved different meanings. From its Latin roots, concurrence basically means "running along side of", which in English came to mean "agreement", but in French it means "competition."

Some New Results On King- And Queen- Graphable Words, Mike Keith

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A word (or phrase, sentence, etc.) is said to be king-graphable (KG) if each of its distinct letters can be placed on a square of an infinite chessboard such that the entire word or pharase can be spelled out by starting on the first letter and making only the moves of a chess king to get from letter to letter.

This Rugged World, Sir Jeremy Morse

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A poem.

Crossword, Derrick Niederman

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A crossword puzzle.

Colloquy

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A collection of responses to previously published articles.

More Martin Magic, Jeremiah Farrell

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Martin is Martin Gardner of course and the magic is his "The 3-by-3 Matix" which first appeared in Scientific American (August, 1966) and is reprinted in his Martin Gardner Presents, 1993, Kaufman and Greenburg, p.149. Word Ways subscriber Max Maven has written a fine introduction to this book and has himself developed a new version of the effect.

Anagram Quiz 6, . Anil

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No abstract available.

An Alice Puzzle, Oscar Thumpbindle

Word Ways

I have been sitting in on an honor's class about Lewis Carroll being taught this spring semester at my old college haunt Butler University in Indianapolis. Among the many new puzzles and games being introduced in the class I offer the following based on the ten different letters in "Alice in Wonderland". These ten are ALICE and DROWN, perhaps referring the the 2nd Wonderland chapter "A Pool of Tears" where Alice thought she might drown in her own tears.

Kickshaws, David Morice

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Book Review - Steven Kahan, Karen Farrell

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A book review of You Can Take My Word For It: Another Sixty Adventures in Logology For the Connoisseur by Steven Kahan (Esskay Publishing Company, Hollis Hills, New York 2012).

Exchanging Antonyms, Susan Thorpe

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Antonyms have long been favourites of the readers of Word Ways, either as themselves (ODD-EVEN) or in disguise. In the latter case, they may be hidden in other word pairs such as in FATE - THINE, SHIN - SHOUT and BANDED -BORED where they occur at the beginnings, ends and in the middles of the word pairs respectively, the other letters remaining the same.

Funny Words 4, . Anil

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No abstract available.

Statue Of Limitations, Don Hauptman

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More funny bloopers and witty retorts.

Tripartitle Numerical Tautonyms, T.A. Hall

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A numerical tautonym is traditionally defined as a word which can be divided into a sequence of at least two (adjacent) parts, where each part has both the same number of letters as well as the same alphabetic value sum (see David Morice, The Dictionary of Wordplay). For example, the four letters in the word THIS can be transposed into the corresponding numbers 20-8-9-19 (where A = 1, B = 2...Z = 26), which can be divided in the two parts 20-8 and 9-19. If the numbers in the first part are added together, then we obtain 28, which …

Punk Whiz 18, . Anil

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More pun quiz misdefinitions.

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Alice In Wonderland

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A puzzle.

Prism #63, May 2012, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

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Impression Rating Via Speed-Dating: How A Single Communication Event Can Alter Perceptions Of Another Individual, Andrew Clayton Dix

Dissertations

The central purpose of this experiment is to scientifically test whether interpersonal communication influences individual perceptions in a dating environment. This study uses interaction appearance theory (IAT) as an empirical foundation for understanding the relationship between communicative outcomes and personal opinions. According to IAT, cognitive impressions of aesthetic appearance are highly fluid and vulnerable to the results of multiple social interactions (Albada, Knapp, & Theune, 2002). While most empirical investigations have provided additional support for this theory, no studies have tested whether IAT applies to various other social constructs. As such, this investigation was designed to address this gap in …

Dismemberment And Devotion: Anatomical Votive Dedication In Italian Popular Religion, Lindsay R. Morehouse

Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects

Anatomical votives are religious offerings that are made to look like body parts and are dedicated in exchange for healing. In many cases, they are dedicated to intermediary figures as a way to bridge the worlds of human and divine. There is evidence that Anatomical votives have been offered in Italy from the middle of the first millennia BCE to the present. This paper examines Etruscan, Greco-Roman, and Christian cults in order to explore continuity and change in this practice over time within Italy.

Editorial Putting Interpreter Educators To The Test: Testing, Ethics, And Technology, Jemina M. Napier

International Journal of Interpreter Education

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Supervision And The Interpreting Profession: Support And Accountabilitythrough Reflective Practice, Ali Hetherington

International Journal of Interpreter Education

In this article, the author argues for the development of consultative supervision within the interpreting profession to reduce work-related stress, provide interpreters with opportunities for regular examination of their practice, and to protect those to whom interpreters provide a service. Supervision is a recognized means of accountability and support for many professions, yet it is largely absent from the training and continuing professional development of interpreters. Furthermore, the absence of literature into occupational stress for interpreters implies that such stress is unrecognized or considered unproblematic by the profession. The author draws on findings from a recent qualitative research study into …

Broadcast Yourself: Youtube As A Tool For Interpreter Education, Tom R. Cox

International Journal of Interpreter Education

YouTube is a website designed for the purpose of easily sharing videos and is extremely popular with today’s generation of “digital native” students. The technology is easily accessible, free, and relatively simple to use. However, its merits as an educational tool for interpreting seem to be widely underutilized even though it is ideally suited for working with a visual language. In the fall of 2009, I began experimenting with YouTube in my American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting classes. I have slowly incorporated many of YouTube’s useful features in my curriculum, enhancing my ability to provide pre-assignment information, interpreting models, and …

Constructing Gender: Female Architectural Patronage In Roman Asia Minor And Syria In The First Through Sixth Centuries Ce, Grace K. Erny

Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects

The patronage of architectural projects was a major way that prominent citizens of the Roman Empire shaped urban landscapes. These acts of patronage constituted a series of performances through which categories such as “male,” “female,” “public,” and “private” were constructed. In this paper, I use architectural, epigraphical, and literary evidence to analyze examples of female architectural patronage in the cities of Roman Asia Minor and Syria in the first through sixth centuries CE. I explore how these architectural performances contributed to an ongoing discourse about gender and the allocation of space.

Nationalism, Archaeology, And The Antiquities Trade In Turkey And Iraq, Miranda Pettengill

Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects

The illicit antiquities trade is a vast and complex network comprising a large number of participants across the globe. This paper focuses specifically on looters and illegal excavators, those who first retrieve ancient objects from the ground to be traded on the black market. My research examines the reasoning and motivation behind looting; specifically, I evaluate how nationalistic ideologies in Turkey and Iraq affect the choices and actions of illegal excavators living there. I also discuss the benefits of community archaeology, an approach that includes local people in the practice and presentation of excavation, as a strategy to minimize the …

Spanning The Globe With Scrabble Tiles, Mike Keith

Word Ways

Here is a puzzle that's simple to state but not so easy to solve. Take a set of English Scabble tiles with its standard complement of 98 letters and two blanks (that can be used to stand for any letter). Use all 100 tiles to make a list of names of countries in the world, all different. For the acceptable list of country names use the current list of 192 member states of the United Nations.